When the Terran scouts you and prevents you from putting your expo hatch there, what do you do? Just be content putting it several seconds later (and more prone to a bunker rush?)

Do the crappy pool before? Settle with putting the hatchery in a crappy location? Go 1 base?

XythOs

Germany520 Posts

April 21 2005 02:20 GMT

Send 2 Drones to build the hatch, if you placed the hatch go with the 2nd Drone scouting or just send it back to your mainbase.

DooMeR

United States1519 Posts

April 21 2005 02:34 GMT

if ur gonna do 3 hat just make the 2nd one at ur choke if u can't move scv without an unreasonable amount of effort, or just pool sooner.

Josh124

United Kingdom145 Posts

April 21 2005 02:56 GMT

I've seen some zergs attack the scv to below 40 then cancel build extractor at the gas and finish off the scv with full health. Not sure if that's much better than sending two drones though.

Sorrow_eyes

United States1007 Posts

April 21 2005 03:22 GMT

If you are sure that terran wont go bunker rush and if you are at a good location for z say 6 o clock and 9 o clock, just hatch at your second expo, at LT, the 6, and 9 expo can cover your nat and your main by sunk. I've seen ogogo done this alot.

FroZZoR

China925 Posts

April 21 2005 03:44 GMT

u have to build pool first

GroT

Belgium3003 Posts

April 21 2005 04:33 GMT

scouting early is great anyway

just send your scout and exp drone together

ras

Germany385 Posts

April 21 2005 04:44 GMT

i immediatelly build pool instead of hatch and send the drone back to base. if the scv still stays at expo i send 2 drones out there, but in most of the cases it will just follow your drone as the terran player expects some main/chokehatch build.

EAGER-beaver

Canada2799 Posts

April 21 2005 04:48 GMT

I just 4 pool every zvt so that situation is never a problem for me

-DaJ-

Switzerland539 Posts

April 21 2005 15:38 GMT

#10

im just curious. exalted did this happen to u in a game? because i did that, like about 11 hours ago. i might have been playing vs u then....
i didnt let the zerg expand and so he got in really bad troubles.-> he didnt know how to respond, looked like he never played without fe...

SoMuchBetter

Australia10606 Posts

April 21 2005 15:56 GMT

#11

this sort of thing is incredibly common, i doubt that it was you that did it to him

solution: send 2 drone sout instead of just one. If you dont see an scv coming, build your hatch and scout. If the scv comes to block it, attack it with your drones, but be careful to not let it build anything in the way. If it gets to the point where you have over 430 minerals or whatever, then pool first and hatch after the scv is dead or has given up harassment

NeverEndingStory

446 Posts

April 21 2005 16:54 GMT

#12

I always make 12 drones then i take 2 one to scout and one to make hatch if i see scv i can easily destroy it i there is no scv i make hatch and second drone scouts resps.

88)WhyYouKickMyDog

United States608 Posts

April 21 2005 17:15 GMT

#13

i scout with 9th drone, and if i see an SCV, i figure out really quick if I can get a hatch down at expo before it arrives (by stopping building drones, sending drone early, etc), or if i dont think i can do it, 12 pool/gas, and send 1 drone to attack it, and do gas trick if drone gets low health.

if he builds a building in the way of your expo, steal his gas. you steal gas, because you know that he cut down on marine production to build that building, and so when he cancels building, hell have all these extra minerals and nothing to do with them except build a really late 2nd barracks, or fast expo. AND, if he decides to hold ramp, he wont be mining gas for like 10 minutes. If he decides to go and kill the extractor, you can harass him with your speedlings, while massing drones, teching up, and securing your expansion before he gets an army that can stop the speedling harassment.

88)WhyYouKickMyDog

United States608 Posts

April 21 2005 17:18 GMT

#14

oh, and if he does decide to hold ramp, and leave his gas stolen, DONT CANCEL SPEED UPGRADE unless you saw the fast exp CC building. holding ramp usually means hes takign a fast expansion, so you should 3 hatch and tech while pumping drones, but just in case he plans on sending mass SCV/rines and cheese rushing you, you need the speed upgrade to make sure you dont die to it.

uhjoo

Korea (South)1740 Posts

April 21 2005 17:47 GMT

#15

this is pretty basic too but another good thing to do is if you see scv coming, hide your drone somewhere and after scv passes make hatch.

but yeah if he scouts you early you usually have to pool first (and 12 pool isn't that crappy a build o_o)

rT)Arch

Uruguay22 Posts

April 21 2005 21:40 GMT

#16

Sometimes if ur scouting drone is not far u can go back to main with the drone who was exping and bring the other back to build the hatch, most likely the scv will follow the original drone.

SainT

Chile1067 Posts

April 21 2005 21:48 GMT

#17

On April 22 2005 02:47 uhjoo wrote:
this is pretty basic too but another good thing to do is if you see scv coming, hide your drone somewhere and after scv passes make hatch.

but yeah if he scouts you early you usually have to pool first (and 12 pool isn't that crappy a build o_o)

hmm is it a good strat to just send 2 drones, with no scouting one?